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Post by jaylive on Feb 28, 2016 8:16:10 GMT -5
i missed out on a soc general franky on friday from ebay. winning bid was about 130. wayyyyy under what i was willing to pay for it.
the thing that bothers me so bad is I simply forgot to bid and it was gone. i was watching this damned thing for seven freaking days. only to have some dumb crap pop up at work and make me lose focus.
im still super pissed. as you guys can probably tell lol.
im sure this has happened to you guys too! lets hear it.
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Post by mecha-mania on Feb 28, 2016 10:16:41 GMT -5
Yeah, i do have such experiences. Several years back, when i was actively buying vintage pieces over ebay, i came across something i liked, from an italian seller based in japan. To be honest, i was prepared to bid big on the item, a diaclone great robot base. Everytime i made a bid on the item, i am almost instantly outbid by a buyer, a 0 or 1 feedback buyer, sensing something wrong, i began to limit my bid and sure enough, the auction ends and i lost, and guess what? The seller relisted the item again! I began to monitor some of his other items for auction and similar events happened. Really felt that i was taken for a ride by the seller and his phantom bidders. If you do not wish to sell your items below your expected selling price or have a reserve price in mind, do not offer an auction with a low starting bid only to expect buyers to bid over your expected price and intervene when things are not going your way!
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Post by jaylive on Feb 28, 2016 10:44:51 GMT -5
damn bro. mecha-mecha i hate scammers |
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Post by Philo Beddoe on Feb 28, 2016 12:47:18 GMT -5
The method of "shill bidding" as mecha describes is prevalent on Ebay but they've made strides over the years to curb and deter (to a certain extent) this activity.
There is an option to be sent a text message once an auction you're watching is within 15 minutes of ending but I find this too broad as it applies to all auctions you're watching. Of course, if it's that can't miss item then one might find this useful.
I've looked into auto sniper features too explore the possibility of implementing it on my account but at the end of the day I figure if I really want the item, and I miss it, then it wasn't meant to be.
As for the Frankie auction, who knows, maybe the winners high bid would have been higher than yours. By not bidding the winner simply got a great deal.
Also, I've had work get in the way of bidding on items but I figure without work I wouldn't be bidding on items anyway so.....
I guess this is my why of rationalizing the painful loss of a potentially great deal.
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Post by KingboyD on Feb 29, 2016 11:30:33 GMT -5
I've had so many missed opportunities, from auctions I forgot to bid on to discovering a crazy good deal after the auction ended to amazing sales offers through FB that someone beat me by a minute. But its the ones that you still remember a few years later that you know are the most painful. I certainly have a handful burned into my memory, including some auctions that were relisted several times and I just held off on biting, then they were gone when someone else snagged the items because I hesitated (I started to doubt myself because there were no bidders). Now the items are either impossible to find or the prices skyrocketed.
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Post by jaylive on Feb 29, 2016 17:51:44 GMT -5
i also screwed up the same way sometime last year and didnt get a yamato v1 1/60 vf-1j max and miriya set, complete with super parts for 100 shipped.
the price was too good and i emailed the lister for more pics. by the time i saw his response they were gone.
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Post by fredeliza on Feb 29, 2016 18:03:28 GMT -5
Around 2002 when ebay was still new, I missed out on a minty boxed dx trider g7 for $20 due to last second bidding and my Internet freezing  . But, at the same time, I was able to score a dx minty boxed ideon from the same seller for $35. She had a big size dx minty yamato but it went for around $200. |
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Post by jaylive on Feb 29, 2016 21:21:35 GMT -5
update: so i just got a franky on the bay with buy it now for 135! i think this was the same seller. maybe the last buyer flaked? ha! super happy right now bros!
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Post by mpchi on Feb 29, 2016 21:27:25 GMT -5
That's great news. Wish I paid that low for mine. Its a great piece, one of my favorite (technically speaking).
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Post by fredeliza on Feb 29, 2016 22:13:33 GMT -5
Franky is great!One of my favorite chogokin.
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Post by tetsuryu on Mar 1, 2016 5:33:41 GMT -5
You wanna talk about missed deals, I chickened out on the 1990 release of G1 Wheeljack when the price was only like $150 It had box and everything. |
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Post by jaylive on Mar 1, 2016 5:58:15 GMT -5
You wanna talk about missed deals, I chickened out on the 1990 release of G1 Wheeljack when the price was only like $150 It had box and everything. not informed about tf prices. whats it going for now? |
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Post by tetsuryu on Mar 1, 2016 23:43:19 GMT -5
I have no idea really. The original '84 release fetches a lot more money than the '90 gold box release. But the point is, I could have had a minty Wheeljack, and ultimately, I WOULD have had enough money to pay how much it ended up going for. I just got scared. But eh, I ended up blowing that money on a loose but complete Thunderwing which probably cost even more. You win some, you lose some, right? |
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Post by superrobotarmy on May 2, 2016 17:13:38 GMT -5
I missed Fabian Plastica Goldorak in a very good nick with its box at a bargain price (£50) twice. First time, the auction was about to finish, and there zero bid, I hesitated then got distracted by one my children (mind you, this takes priority at any time!) and missed it. Item got relisted immediately, so this time I bid. I am the only bidder until 30 seconds to the end whe a snipper won at £51. That was my first bitter experience of the snipping technique. I learnt my lessons. Mind you, I tink it is better to miss a lot of bargains than winning too many overpriced auctions.
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Post by Philo Beddoe on May 2, 2016 21:06:41 GMT -5
Sometimes I spend so much money on robots that I wish I did miss a deal.......does that count?
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on May 18, 2016 16:05:37 GMT -5
My one that bugs me is a Popynica Tiger 7 motorcycle in box...... timing was bad ;-/
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Post by reVolVer on May 19, 2016 2:32:17 GMT -5
I missed Fabian Plastica Goldorak in a very good nick with its box at a bargain price (£50) twice. First time, the auction was about to finish, and there zero bid, I hesitated then got distracted by one my children (mind you, this takes priority at any time!) and missed it. Item got relisted immediately, so this time I bid. I am the only bidder until 30 seconds to the end whe a snipper won at £51. That was my first bitter experience of the snipping technique. I learnt my lessons. Mind you, I tink it is better to miss a lot of bargains than winning too many overpriced auctions. well i guess sniping is a part of ebay experience we cant get rid of... one way to beat them is to outsmart them. ive been at the losing end of snipers more than once... and it aint felt good. hence ive been forced to develop sniping techniques of my own.. which i only use if im desperate enough to get a certain item at ebay.  |
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Post by mecha-mania on May 19, 2016 3:19:09 GMT -5
I guess the only way of combating sniping is to put in you best and highest bid possible for an item. Whether you win or loose it should not bother you that much as you have already maximized your budget for the item. I have tried this in recent auctions and it worked out pretty well for me. If i get out bidded by sinping or simply by just a higher bid, i live with it.
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Post by RoboFestivus on May 19, 2016 7:29:20 GMT -5
"The Dollar Auction first appeared in 1971. Today, given inflation, the game is often played like this: A large group of people participate in the auction, say between 30 and 50. A $20 bill is auctioned off to the highest bidder. Bidding begins at $1. All subsequent bids must be in single dollar increments. The “twist” to this auction is that while the highest bidder wins the twenty dollar bill, the second highest bidder must pay to the auctioneer what he or she bid as well. In this auction, there will usually be not only be one loser, one who pays money for nothing, and but two. Read on! By the time the auction reaches $19, most bidders drop out. The person who had bid $18 will invariably bid $20 to break even. Presumably, that would bring the auction to a close, right? Wrong! One professor who utilized the Dollar Auction as a teaching tool for more than 20 years said that the bidding will usually continue well past the $20 mark. Consider this case in point, a day the professor will never forget. He used the dollar auction while teaching a course for executives in organizational behavior. At the end, the “winner” paid $54 for the twenty dollar bill. The loser paid $53. The rest of the class watched the futile bidding war with bewilderment and glee." benbyerly.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/the-20-auction-and-the-dynamics-of-conflict/ |
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Post by mecha-mania on May 20, 2016 4:32:35 GMT -5
"The Dollar Auction first appeared in 1971. Today, given inflation, the game is often played like this: A large group of people participate in the auction, say between 30 and 50. A $20 bill is auctioned off to the highest bidder. Bidding begins at $1. All subsequent bids must be in single dollar increments. The “twist” to this auction is that while the highest bidder wins the twenty dollar bill, the second highest bidder must pay to the auctioneer what he or she bid as well. In this auction, there will usually be not only be one loser, one who pays money for nothing, and but two. Read on! By the time the auction reaches $19, most bidders drop out. The person who had bid $18 will invariably bid $20 to break even. Presumably, that would bring the auction to a close, right? Wrong! One professor who utilized the Dollar Auction as a teaching tool for more than 20 years said that the bidding will usually continue well past the $20 mark. Consider this case in point, a day the professor will never forget. He used the dollar auction while teaching a course for executives in organizational behavior. At the end, the “winner” paid $54 for the twenty dollar bill. The loser paid $53. The rest of the class watched the futile bidding war with bewilderment and glee." benbyerly.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/the-20-auction-and-the-dynamics-of-conflict/I take it that the 30-50 people who participated in such an auction aren't the brightest bunch around  but then again, we are not too bright either when we participate in sweepstakes lol |
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